In front of Liu Yunwei's horse formation, surrounded by hundreds of personal guards, he carefully observed the Qing army's defense on the stone gate.

I saw that the entire Shimen Pass had been rebuilt by the Qing army: in the outermost part of the city, the Qing army urgently built dozens of small fortresses, and hundreds of Qing soldiers were stationed in each small fortress, basically mainly archers; Moreover, the Qing army also dug a large number of trenches and connected all these dozens of small fortresses in series to form a huge fortress group, which firmly protected the stone gate behind; In these criss-crossing trenches, the Qing army also deployed a large number of troops, trying to echo dozens of fortresses and kill and wound a large number of Ming soldiers.

At the same time, between the Qing army's fortress group and Shimenguan City, the Qing army also built a strong horse retaining wall, and stationed a lot of troops behind the horse retaining wall. As for the more detailed information, it is not clear for the time being because the soldiers who do not collect it at night cannot go deep into it and can only observe it from a distance.

As expected, Huang Taiji stationed the main army in Shimen Pass, and heightened and strengthened the entire Guancheng. By the time the war began, Huang Taiji had cut down all the trees within a radius of five miles around Shimen Pass, and turned all these timbers into sassal wood and building materials for the purpose of defending Shimen Pass.

Seeing that the Qing army was in such a posture, Liu Yunwei was not surprised, the Qing army was in such a desperate situation, and it was expected that they would do their best to resist stubbornly. At this moment, the only thing Liu Yunwei has to consider is how to conquer Shimen Pass as soon as possible and annihilate the main force of the Qing army in the city on the basis of reducing the casualties of the soldiers of the army!

In order to achieve this goal, Liu Yunwei concentrated all the artillery of the eight armies of the Hanwei Army's pacesetter battalion, Feiyu battalion, trapping camp, Huben battalion, Zhechong battalion, Yingyang battalion, Yueqi battalion, and Yulin battalion, and set up an unprecedentedly large artillery battalion position on the periphery of the Qing army's Shimenguan defense line. On this position, Liu Yunwei gathered a total of 240 Dafolang machine guns, 320 Huzun Run, and 320 Shenji gun trucks.

Such a huge artillery group can be described as an unprecedented existence in the history of the Ming Dynasty. So much so that the commander of this huge artillery group, Edward, the garrison of the artillery battalion of the Hanwei Army's pacesetter, was so excited that he almost went crazy, and almost fainted with happiness when he saw the huge artillery group that could not be seen at a glance.

After confirming that he was about to command this huge artillery group in the siege battle, Edward said to Liu Yunwei in an almost crazy tone: "Wise and martial Governor, please believe me, under the bombardment of this invincible artillery group, no army can stand up!" This big battle will be a complete victory while the artillery fire stops! ”

As excited as Edward were, there were also the generals of the Hanwei Army and the Dangkou Battalion. Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Zhao Kaishan, Wen Poyu, Li Tianhao, Wang Gandang, Huang Fuming, Gao Hongguang, Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Ai Nengqi have completed the reorganization of the army, and they are full of fighting spirit in the army under their respective commands. And Guo Yi, Zheng Zhibao and other garrisons are also gearing up, preparing to take the lead in the upcoming siege battle. As for Yuan Mingxuan, Zhou Tianyi, Hu Kun and other governors, their hearts were also agitated at this time, and they all raised their arms and shouted, as if they were crazy, as if they had seen the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty ascend the city wall of Shimen Pass, and saw that the head of Huang Taiji had been hung high above the city!

Seeing that everything was ready, Liu Yunwei suddenly raised the armor-piercing steel spear in his hand, and then roared angrily in front of the army, like a tiger descending a mountain and a dragon going out to sea. Immediately afterwards, the 450,000 soldiers of the Ming Army were like an ocean of fire oil, which was instantly ignited by Liu Yunwei's anger!

Hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers roared in unison, hundreds of thousands of Han family sons raised their arms and shouted, hundreds of thousands of sophisticated blades began to hit the ground rhythmically, making a deafening loud sound, like a burst of loud and pleasant bells, announcing that the death of Huang Taiji and hundreds of thousands of Qing troops had arrived!

Liu Yunwei galloped wildly, roaring with blood-red eyes: "Give me back the rivers and mountains!" ”

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army also roared in unison: "Give me back the rivers and mountains!" ”

"How about the Tartars killing my people and encroaching on my territory?"

"Destroy the country! Slaughter the crowd! None of them! ”

"Destroy the country! Slaughter the crowd! None of them! ”

"Destroy the country! Slaughter the crowd! None of them! ”

The soldiers of the Ming army replied to Liu Yunwei's roar with this famous sentence of Emperor Wen of Sui, 450,000 soldiers were roaring with their arms raised, Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Li Dingguo, Guo Yi, Zheng Zhibao and other generals were roaring with their arms raised, and Yuan Mingxuan, Zhou Tianyi and other governors were also roaring with their arms raised.

Liu Yunwei's eyes had become blurred at this time, as if he saw the heroic souls of the 100,000 soldiers who died in the battle in Salhu, the heroic souls of the soldiers of the Qijia Army and the Sichuan Army on the banks of the Hunhe River, and the voices and smiles of his grandfather Liu Ting, father Liu Zhao and his wife Xu Wanxin.

"In this battle, watch me avenge thousands of Chinese heroes!"

Liu Yunwei rode his horse to the middle of the front of the army, and then pointed the steel gun in his hand at the Shimen Pass in the distance, and roared loudly: "Wind! Wind! Wind! ”

Immediately afterwards, 450,000 soldiers of the Ming Army roared in unison: "Gale! Gale! Gale! ”

The three voices fell, only to hear the commander of the artillery battalion, Edward, shout angrily with all his strength: "Big Buddha Rang machine salvo!" Fire! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Two hundred and forty Great Buddha cannons opened fire at the same time, and the huge roar produced made the heavens and the earth change color, and the 800,000 troops of both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties were shocked by this unprecedented artillery salvo. It's just that the soldiers of the Ming army were surprised, while the Qing army and Tatars were full of heart.

I saw that the smoke and dust raised by the 240 artillery pieces had risen to the sky, almost completely covering the Ming army, and even the sun in the sky was about to be shrouded, and the battlefield became dim almost instantly.

At the same time, on the periphery of Shimen Pass, dozens of fortresses improvised by the Qing army bore the brunt of the blow and suffered an almost devastating blow. The first round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army alone destroyed more than a dozen outermost forts, burying all the thousands of Qing soldiers stationed in these forts in the rubble.

And the only trenches seen by these forts were not spared, although compared to the obviously targeted forts, these trenches were very hidden and not easy to be hit by artillery, but that was only relative. Under the onslaught of the soldiers of the artillery battalion, these trenches were hit one by one, and the rebounding cannons and splashed stones seemed to have become soul messengers, constantly bouncing back and forth in the trenches, killing a large number of Qing soldiers hiding in them.

What's more, a trench was hit by several or a dozen cannons at the same time, and the huge force collapsed the trench almost instantly, and the hundreds of Qing soldiers hiding in it were buried alive by the collapsed earthen wall before they could scream.

In this way, the two hundred and forty Great Buddha Lang machine guns roared for a whole hour before they slowly subsided. After the dust on the battlefield gradually drifted away, the eyes of the soldiers of the two armies were full of broken walls and ruins of the fortress, as well as craters smashed out by countless cannons. The fortress defense line that Huang Taiji painstakingly managed was already in name only at this time, and most of the dozens of fortresses had been destroyed, leaving only more than ten fortresses still standing alone on the battlefield, and there were few trenches left, most of which had been collapsed by heavy artillery fire.

On the wall of Shimen Pass, Huang Taiji looked at the devastation outside the pass, and only felt a sharp pain in his heart, and the defense line that he had worked so hard to come out of had not had time to play a role, so it was almost destroyed by the artillery battalion of the Ming army.

Originally, Huang Taiji wanted to use the fortress defense line to consume the strength of the Ming army as much as possible, and at the same time, he could delay the time, and maybe the battle situation would change. But at this time, Huang Taiji told himself in his heart: I have to prepare for the worst!

Just when Huang Taiji was about to take advantage of the gap between the heat dissipation of the Ming army's artillery to send troops to the outside of the pass to step up the repair of the defense line, a deafening roar sounded again on the position of the Ming army's artillery camp.

This time, the garrison Edward ordered the three hundred and twenty Huzun to run forward twenty steps and continue to bombard the remnants of the Qing army's fortress. Although the power of the Tiger Run is far less than that of the Big Buddha Lang cannon, the loading speed of the Tiger Run is much faster than that of the Big Buddha Lang cannon, not to mention that the number of Tiger Run is also much more than the number of the Big Buddha Lang cannon, so it seems that the second artillery bombardment of the Ming army is far more fierce than the first.

In the blink of an eye, the remnants of the Qing army's fortress outside Shimen Pass were also covered by heavy artillery fire, and together with the Mongolian soldiers and Han soldiers stationed in it, they turned into dust scattered on the ground.

Liu Yunwei couldn't stop laughing when he saw this, and ordered the whole army to advance thirty steps, and at the same time, the 320 Shenji artillery carriages under the artillery battalion were ready to fire a salvo at the head of Shimen Pass, suppressing the Qing soldiers at the head of the city, and covering the soldiers of the army to fight in the city.

At this time, Huang Taiji also began to mobilize soldiers and horses, preparing to fight to the death with the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of Shimen Pass. I saw that Huang Taiji removed all the elites of the two yellow banners from the city, put them in the pass to garrison, and pulled all the Mongolian troops to the head of the city to defend the city; At the same time, Huang Taiji also mobilized the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion, which he had set up with great effort, and was ready to pull this army out of the pass at the right time, and fight against the Ming army in a bloody battle, and use these Han soldiers to exchange their lives with the soldiers of the Han Wei Army and the Dangkou Battalion.

Just after Huang Taiji had arranged everything, the Ming artillery battalion began to roar for the third time. It's just that this time is different from the previous two salvos, the third salvo of the Ming army was all Shenji artillery trucks, and I saw countless flashing sharp arrows flying towards the head of Shimen Pass, completely enveloping the Mongolian soldiers who were nervously guarding.

These Mongolian soldiers were like countless snowflakes falling one after another, and they were constantly shot at the city, and Huang Taiji was also under the protection of his own soldiers, and fled from the city in great embarrassment.